Lawrence S. Dicara, 1949

No. 21565 Lawrence DiCara and his book Turmoil and Transition in Boston

Public education in Greater Boston: Does America’s Commitment to Equality and Integration Stop at the

            City Line?, written with Charles P. Kindregan. (1977)

Turmoil and Transition in Boston: A Pollitical Memoir from the Busing Era. (2013)

Lawrence Dicara was elected to the Boston City Council in 1972.  At 22 years of age, he was the youngest ever Boston City Councilor.  In 1978, he serves as the Council president.

Lawrence S. Dicara is a Boston lawyer and civic leader who served on the Boston City Council for ten years, serving one year as Council President.  He is a graduate of Boston Latin School, Harvard College, Suffolk University Law School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.  In 1995, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Massachusetts for his service to the University and to the Commonwealth.  DiCara is a partner at Nixon Peabody, a Global 100 law firm, where he specializes in real estate and community development, government relations and public policy.  He has served on the Democratic State Committee for more than 40 years and is sought after by the media and academics as a seasoned and knowledgeable commentator on urban politics.  He has taught at the college and graduate school levels and lectured across the country.  He is a lifelong resident of Boston and now lives in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood with his wife Teresa Spillane, a psychologist, and their triplet daughters.

Turmoil and Transition in Boston: A Political Memoir from the Busing Era (1977)

Turmoil and Transition in Boston tells the personal and political story of Larry DiCara, the youngest person ever elected to the Boston City Council. DiCara’s story is intimately woven into the fate of his hometown of Boston. As the federal court order mandating busing to achieve racial integration in the public schools ripped apart his city, he shows how public policy decisions and economic and demographic changes from that time transformed Boston into one of America’s most diverse, affluent, and successful cities in the 21st century.

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